Martyrdom, sir, is what these people like: it is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.

All progress depends on the unreasonable man.

Only in books has mankind known perfect truth, love and beauty.

It is the highest creatures who take the longest to mature, and are the most helpless during their immaturity.

God has given us a world that nothing but our own folly keeps from being a paradise.

You don't expect me to know what to say about a play when I don't know who the author is, do you? . . . If it's by a good author, it's a good play, naturally. That stands to reason.

Hypocrisy ... is only bad when it is improperly used.